Formerly a Bloomsbury Group design workshop, this Grade I listed five-storey Fitzroy Square townhouse is available to let at £6,000 a week with Knight Frank

Ruth Bloomfield

Last updated at 12:01AM, February 22 2013

The life of a tenant can be a trap or it can free you from care and let you follow your dreams

For millions rented accommodation is a trap from which they long to escape but
are unable to do so. But for some, renting is the route to a lifestyle that
they would otherwise not be able to afford. Five years ago Katherine Hudson
would not have dreamt that she would be living in a rented house, much less
that she would be loving it.

She was in the highly fortunate position of being given a house in Eastbourne,
East Sussex, by her parents when she was 18, and lived there happily for
almost a decade renting rooms to lodgers to